Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-05-28
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

All the powers except Russia have replied
to the Porte's recent circular.
The loss on the Rumford Hotel, burned
Thursday, is $4,000; fully insured.
Twelve hundred more men Joined the
strikers at Chsrleror. Belgium, Friday.
The first place in the Sharp jury was va.
cant when the court, Friday afternoon, sd-
journed to Tuesday.
There has been no material change in the
condition of Major Poore since Thursday.
He is still critically i'll.
The Catholic church st Gardner Depot,
Mass. was burued Friday night Loss SS5,-
900; insured for SIS, $50.
There was violent hail storm at Tings-
ooro, Mass, Friday noon, lasting half an
hour. Stones as large as wslnuts fell.
John B. Finch was reelected Right Worthy
Good Templsr of the Right Worthy Grand
Lodge of United Good Templars, Friday.
Schooner Exchange, of Boothbsy, Maine,
went ashore Friday night near Deer Island !;
will probably be hauled off without damage.
The pool bill has passed both houses of the
Illinois legislature. 1t allows betting on reg
ularly organized race tracks now in exist
ence.
Lyman s. Weeks, was sentenced by Judge
Moore, in New York, Friday. to be hanged
on July 18th, next.
Archbishop Williams of Boston, and many
Americans attended the papsl consistory held
in Rome on Thursday The Pope was in
good health and voice.
serious wreck occurred on the Houston
Texas railway, Thursday, between Wsxs-
hachie and Garrett, Texas. The engineer
and fireman were killed.
President Grew, Friday morning, sum-
moned NJ. Rouvier and M. Deves for con-
ference and induced NJ Rouvier to under
take the task of forming cabinet.
The trouble is being renewed between the
contractors and lsborers in Chicago There
is plan on foot to prosecute the combina-
ton of builders for alleged conspiracy.
In the town of Falmouth. Mass, alone, it
is estimated that nine thousand acres of
woodland were burned over by the recent
fire, which destroyed nearly five thousand
cords of cut " ood
The business of the government so far ibis
month indicates large reduction of the pub
lie debt. Receipts to date, S3l, ,2S5, ,02l; ex-
penditures, $50, $40, 1888; leaving the surplus
for the month, $40, 1873, ,lSS.
Gov. Rusk of Wisconsin, has pardoned
Mrs. Zummemans, sentenced to prison for
life, in 1871, for the murder of her husband.
She was convicted upon circumstantial evil
dence, and the Governor is satisfied that she
is innocent. She is now 6S years old.
| The business failures throughout the coun-
try for the last seven DAYS, as reported to X.
G. Dunn & Co, and +. Russell & Co., today.
number for the United States 1853, and for
Canada %, as compared with $50 of last
week.
| The famous Ralph Baldwin will case,
which has been in the Orange county court
OF Vermont for two years, being contest on
the ground of incapacity and undue influence,
has just been settled. The case involved
$780, 900
The troubles at Breeds shoe factory in
| Rochester, n. II , have been amicably set
tied, both the employees and employer max
concessions. The cutters went in today
The prices made are to remain for the next
six months.
The way freight on ST. Johnsburg & Lake
Champlain railroad ran into a washout ten
miles east of Worthwhile, VT, Friday after
noon. The fireman was killed and the con-
ductor badly in jured. The engine and five
cars are in the washout.
| Lord Colin Campbell has consented TO De
placed in bankruptcy in accordance with the
decision of the bankruptcy court on petition
of the Duke of Marlborough. His liabilities
are S45 900, including $50, 900 for costs in
Cured in prosecuting his divorce against his
wife.
| Captain Vibbesh of the schooner Richard
Lester, from the Grand Back. reports that on
May Is, John Brown and Edward Hogan,
two of the crew, got sstray while attending
travis and have not yet been heard from.
The former belonged in Miscon, N. B., the
latter in Boston.
A hitch has again occurred over the reten-
ton of Gen. Boulanger as war minister of
France. NJ. DeFreycinet finding that he
would be unable to form a cabinet of all new
men and thus exclude Gen. Boulanger, now
insists that the latter must remain at the
head of the war department.